View at Official debian advisory, NVD, CVE.org · CVE detail
Freshness: upstream tracker timestamp is available; use API updated time as primary recency signal.
CVE-2025-6966 not yet assigned priority: Debian including 1 source packages (python-apt), 5 status rows across 5 suites (bookworm, bullseye, forky, sid, trixie): resolved 3, open 2.
NULL pointer dereference in TagSection.keys() in python-apt on APT-based Linux systems allows a local attacker to cause a denial of service (process crash) via a crafted deb822 file with a malformed non-UTF-8 key.